LAURA

Name: LAURA lease production and value, Jan 1993 onwards
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
License: https://www.rrc.texas.gov/site-policies/

Operated by XTO ENERGY INC. (P-5 945936) in the GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 17243District 03Field 34733500OilCasinghead gasSave Export

Value, all time

$1.7 M

Jan 1993 – Nov 2017

Value, last 12 filed months

at the published price for each month

Months reported

299

no gaps in the span

Streams

oil, casinghead gas

The GIDDINGS (AUSTIN CHALK-3) field

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 5,900 leases and 6,985 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered

1960-10-29

as the register files it

Field class

Oil and gas

the register's own label

Between wells

0 ft

minimum

From a lease line

330 ft

minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 80 acres. The field rule took effect on 2025-09-30.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: “DKT OG-25-00028011: UFT FIELD, ALLOCATION FORMULA SUSPENDED”

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

Stream	Basis	Volume	Value
Oil	Disposition	21,073 bbl	$539,849
Casinghead gas	Production	392,714 Mcf	$1,158,817
Total			$1,698,666

110,904 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 30.2770, -96.7924. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

30.27704, -96.79242 · centre of the wells drawn, derived⌘ or Ctrl + scroll to zoom

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

With a plug date

100.0%

1 of 1 wells

Median depth

8,390 ft

1 wells filed one

Completion to plug

46.7 years

median over 1 well

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule

1100.0%

A plug date is filed

1100.0%

BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.

1100.0%

NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.

00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 8,390 ft.

Completions filed

Aug 1979

1 of 1 wells

Plug dates filed

Apr 2026

1 of 1 wells

Last completion to plug: a median of 46.7 years across the 1 well that filed both dates, with the middle half between 46.7 years and 46.7 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

1 well


42-28730503	1	8,390 ft	Aug 1979	Apr 2026	Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (299)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

299 months


Nov 2017	0	0	55.42	3.12	$0
Oct 2017	0	0	49.29	2.98	$0
Sep 2017	0	0	47.52	3.09	$0
Aug 2017	0	0	45.37	3.00	$0
Jul 2017	0	0	43.87	3.09	$0
Jun 2017	0	0	42.49	3.09	$0
May 2017	0	0	45.37	3.26	$0
Apr 2017	0	0	47.93	3.21	$0
Mar 2017	0	0	46.77	2.98	$0
Feb 2017	0	0	50.45	2.95	$0
Jan 2017	0	0	49.41	3.42	$0
Dec 2016	0	0	48.76	3.72	$0
Nov 2016	0	0	42.49	2.64	$0
Oct 2016	0	0	46.19	3.09	$0
Sep 2016	0	0	41.55	3.10	$0
Aug 2016	0	0	41.44	2.92	$0
Jul 2016	0	0	41.62	2.92	$0
Jun 2016	0	0	45.35	2.69	$0
May 2016	0	0	42.52	1.99	$0
Apr 2016	0	0	36.56	1.99	$0
Mar 2016	0	0	33.01	1.79	$0
Feb 2016	0	402	26.47	2.06	$830
Jan 2016	0	425	27.35	2.36	$1,005
Dec 2015	0	426	32.36	2.00	$853
Nov 2015	0	412	38.79	2.17	$893
Oct 2015	0	448	43.55	2.43	$1,087
Sep 2015	0	446	42.99	2.76	$1,230
Aug 2015	0	439	40.16	2.87	$1,261
Jul 2015	0	421	48.15	2.95	$1,240
Jun 2015	0	416	56.15	2.88	$1,199
May 2015	0	434	55.21	2.96	$1,283
Apr 2015	0	418	49.82	2.71	$1,131
Mar 2015	0	436	42.89	2.93	$1,280
Feb 2015	0	393	44.66	2.98	$1,170
Jan 2015	0	429	43.43	3.10	$1,330
Dec 2014	0	447	54.69	3.59	$1,605
Nov 2014	0	436	70.46	4.25	$1,854
Oct 2014	0	459	78.30	3.90	$1,791
Sep 2014	0	435	86.16	4.05	$1,760
Aug 2014	0	449	89.39	4.04	$1,812
Jul 2014	0	445	96.56	4.18	$1,860
Jun 2014	0	430	98.16	4.74	$2,037
May 2014	0	448	94.73	4.73	$2,118
Apr 2014	0	431	95.94	4.81	$2,073
Mar 2014	0	441	95.89	5.06	$2,230
Feb 2014	0	393	97.40	6.19	$2,433
Jan 2014	0	440	90.40	4.86	$2,139
Dec 2013	0	443	91.82	4.35	$1,929
Nov 2013	0	409	88.85	3.74	$1,529
Oct 2013	0	375	97.42	3.78	$1,417
Sep 2013	0	212	104.11	3.72	$788
Aug 2013	0	220	104.25	3.52	$775
Jul 2013	0	206	102.52	3.72	$766
Jun 2013	0	91	94.40	3.93	$358
May 2013	0	373	94.83	4.15	$1,548
Apr 2013	0	186	93.96	4.28	$797
Mar 2013	0	261	93.62	3.91	$1,021
Feb 2013	0	237	91.23	3.42	$811
Jan 2013	0	383	91.60	3.42	$1,310
Dec 2012	0	318	86.77	3.42	$1,088
Nov 2012	0	406	86.95	3.62	$1,472
Oct 2012	183	578	89.38	3.40	$18,322
Sep 2012	0	400	94.67	2.92	$1,167
Aug 2012	0	552	92.66	2.91	$1,605
Jul 2012	0	708	85.13	3.02	$2,139
Jun 2012	0	543	79.82	2.52	$1,368
May 2012	0	495	91.61	2.49	$1,232
Apr 2012	0	585	101.65	2.00	$1,168
Mar 2012	0	628	105.05	2.22	$1,395
Feb 2012	0	653	101.10	2.57	$1,678
Jan 2012	0	668	98.09	2.73	$1,826
Dec 2011	67	572	96.87	3.24	$8,343
Nov 2011	0	596	95.72	3.31	$1,974
Oct 2011	0	622	84.98	3.65	$2,269
Sep 2011	0	235	83.62	3.99	$937
Aug 2011	0	906	83.40	4.15	$3,759
Jul 2011	1	733	94.14	4.52	$3,405
Jun 2011	1	574	92.90	4.64	$2,756
May 2011	0	626	98.13	4.40	$2,757
Apr 2011	0	619	105.96	4.33	$2,682
Mar 2011	182	697	96.36	4.06	$20,365
Feb 2011	1	616	85.64	4.18	$2,661
Jan 2011	0	701	86.50	4.59	$3,217
Dec 2010	0	590	85.73	4.35	$2,565
Nov 2010	0	533	80.84	3.80	$2,023
Oct 2010	0	575	78.10	3.51	$2,018
Sep 2010	0	639	72.63	3.98	$2,543
Aug 2010	0	850	73.68	4.42	$3,756
Jul 2010	173	863	72.55	4.74	$16,639
Jun 2010	182	826	70.36	4.91	$16,862
May 2010	1	870	71.12	4.24	$3,756
Apr 2010	0	387	81.69	4.12	$1,595
Mar 2010	1	720	78.39	4.39	$3,238
Feb 2010	183	556	73.58	5.44	$16,491
Jan 2010	0	699	74.36	5.96	$4,169
Dec 2009	0	604	71.44	5.48	$3,312
Nov 2009	0	609	74.59	3.75	$2,285
Oct 2009	0	637	72.54	4.11	$2,618
Sep 2009	0	617	65.54	3.06	$1,891
Aug 2009	0	764	67.42	3.22	$2,459
Jul 2009	0	163	61.13	3.46	$565
Jun 2009	0	599	66.16	3.90	$2,333
May 2009	0	843	54.74	3.93	$3,309
Apr 2009	0	796	46.77	3.59	$2,856
Mar 2009	166	898	42.14	4.06	$10,640
Feb 2009	0	546	32.81	4.63	$2,530
Jan 2009	0	657	35.86	5.37	$3,529
Dec 2008	0	477	37.10	5.98	$2,851
Nov 2008	0	463	55.49	6.86	$3,176
Oct 2008	0	791	75.24	6.92	$5,475
Sep 2008	0	777	101.76	7.88	$6,121
Aug 2008	0	785	114.22	8.48	$6,659
Jul 2008	0	799	131.08	11.39	$9,100
Jun 2008	187	823	131.33	13.03	$35,285
May 2008	0	870	123.17	11.57	$10,070
Apr 2008	0	872	110.31	10.45	$9,117
Mar 2008	0	859	101.90	9.66	$8,301
Feb 2008	0	0	92.53	8.77	$0
Jan 2008	0	557	90.38	8.21	$4,571
Dec 2007	0	438	88.33	7.30	$3,198
Nov 2007	180	229	91.67	7.29	$18,170
Oct 2007	0	586	82.85	6.92	$4,056
Sep 2007	0	781	75.84	6.24	$4,877
Aug 2007	156	796	69.06	6.39	$15,858
Jul 2007	0	755	70.90	6.39	$4,823
Jun 2007	0	307	62.00	7.55	$2,317
May 2007	0	349	58.74	7.85	$2,738
Apr 2007	0	449	59.61	7.81	$3,505
Mar 2007	0	471	56.92	7.30	$3,439
Feb 2007	348	520	55.10	8.22	$23,447
Jan 2007	0	100	50.30	6.73	$673
Dec 2006	0	348	56.65	6.92	$2,408
Nov 2006	0	582	54.20	7.62	$4,433
Oct 2006	0	557	54.90	6.01	$3,350
Sep 2006	0	608	60.08	5.04	$3,063
Aug 2006	0	763	68.71	7.34	$5,600
Jul 2006	0	933	69.37	6.34	$5,918
Jun 2006	0	700	66.28	6.38	$4,469
May 2006	187	861	66.01	6.42	$17,876
Apr 2006	0	951	64.39	7.36	$7,000
Mar 2006	0	970	56.70	7.08	$6,870
Feb 2006	0	788	57.59	7.75	$6,108
Jan 2006	187	977	60.59	8.93	$20,058
Dec 2005	0	1,186	54.94	13.42	$15,911
Nov 2005	186	1,299	54.69	10.59	$23,927
Oct 2005	0	1,290	58.34	13.80	$17,797
Sep 2005	0	838	61.45	12.08	$10,122
Aug 2005	0	1,048	61.51	9.80	$10,267
Jul 2005	0	1,088	55.69	7.84	$8,534
Jun 2005	0	1,226	52.33	7.38	$9,049
May 2005	0	1,107	45.22	6.65	$7,363
Apr 2005	167	1,115	49.20	7.36	$16,423
Mar 2005	0	1,257	50.37	7.15	$8,994
Feb 2005	0	1,062	45.22	6.31	$6,703
Jan 2005	186	1,182	43.16	6.32	$15,501
Dec 2004	0	1,238	39.86	6.75	$8,358
Nov 2004	0	1,210	45.28	6.33	$7,660
Oct 2004	0	1,402	49.70	6.52	$9,134
Sep 2004	206	988	43.24	5.28	$14,128
Aug 2004	0	1,183	42.37	5.55	$6,566
Jul 2004	0	1,315	38.28	6.08	$8,001
Jun 2004	0	995	36.10	6.43	$6,401
May 2004	0	1,994	37.48	6.49	$12,950
Apr 2004	174	1,480	34.47	5.86	$14,668
Mar 2004	0	1,164	34.36	5.53	$6,437
Feb 2004	0	1,119	32.45	5.51	$6,165
Jan 2004	0	1,157	32.03	6.30	$7,289
Dec 2003	0	1,273	30.26	6.30	$8,022
Nov 2003	0	1,150	28.80	4.60	$5,284
Oct 2003	0	1,262	28.17	4.76	$6,007
Sep 2003	0	1,181	26.31	4.75	$5,609
Aug 2003	0	1,290	29.76	5.13	$6,617
Jul 2003	0	1,246	29.41	5.17	$6,443
Jun 2003	192	1,234	28.56	5.98	$12,866
May 2003	0	1,430	26.59	5.97	$8,541
Apr 2003	0	1,364	26.67	5.41	$7,376
Mar 2003	0	1,435	31.14	6.10	$8,748
Feb 2003	0	1,242	33.48	7.93	$9,844
Jan 2003	178	1,427	30.31	5.58	$13,361
Dec 2002	0	1,370	26.91	4.85	$6,650
Nov 2002	181	1,302	24.66	4.14	$9,850
Oct 2002	0	1,338	26.46	4.23	$5,659
Sep 2002	0	1,088	27.44	3.64	$3,955
Aug 2002	179	1,330	25.96	3.16	$8,855
Jul 2002	0	1,354	24.58	3.06	$4,146
Jun 2002	0	1,330	23.73	3.34	$4,440
May 2002	0	1,335	24.66	3.58	$4,785
Apr 2002	0	1,329	23.65	3.51	$4,668
Mar 2002	189	1,427	22.00	3.10	$8,586
Feb 2002	0	1,253	18.22	2.38	$2,977
Jan 2002	0	1,476	17.17	2.38	$3,507
Dec 2001	191	1,466	16.93	2.36	$6,700
Nov 2001	0	1,531	18.07	2.41	$3,683
Oct 2001	189	1,630	19.78	2.53	$7,860
Sep 2001	0	1,637	24.26	2.25	$3,685
Aug 2001	0	1,760	24.87	3.05	$5,374
Jul 2001	177	1,810	23.93	3.20	$10,022
Jun 2001	0	1,598	24.56	3.82	$6,111
May 2001	185	1,726	25.52	4.31	$12,156
Apr 2001	194	1,775	24.68	5.34	$14,258
Mar 2001	0	1,792	24.54	5.38	$9,635
Feb 2001	177	0	27.75	5.77	$4,912
Jan 2001	192	1,816	27.47	8.40	$20,526
Dec 2000	0	2,065	26.88	9.12	$18,838
Nov 2000	194	1,929	32.21	5.66	$17,163
Oct 2000	0	1,921	31.23	5.15	$9,885
Sep 2000	185	3,172	31.87	5.19	$22,348
Aug 2000	0	3,012	29.64	4.54	$13,677
Jul 2000	0	2,237	28.53	4.09	$9,149
Jun 2000	179	1,981	29.30	4.40	$13,956
May 2000	174	1,892	27.26	3.68	$11,705
Apr 2000	0	1,954	24.51	3.12	$6,089
Mar 2000	325	2,087	28.42	2.86	$15,205
Feb 2000	0	2,105	27.62	2.73	$5,739
Jan 2000	191	2,442	25.27	2.48	$10,884
Dec 1999	354	2,080	24.28	2.42	$13,636
Nov 1999	1	538	23.19	2.43	$1,333
Oct 1999	166	2,481	20.98	2.80	$10,439
Sep 1999	195	220	21.75	2.62	$4,817
Aug 1999	185	2,465	19.26	2.88	$10,651
Jul 1999	2	2,347	17.89	2.37	$5,604
Jun 1999	170	2,142	15.94	2.36	$7,769
May 1999	185	1,964	15.79	2.32	$7,480
Apr 1999	1	1,844	15.10	2.21	$4,087
Mar 1999	181	2,198	12.47	1.84	$6,298
Feb 1999	355	2,065	9.98	1.82	$7,297
Jan 1999	176	2,337	10.38	1.90	$6,267
Dec 1998	375	2,387	9.20	1.77	$7,683
Nov 1998	176	2,662	10.89	2.19	$7,735
Oct 1998	178	3,086	12.42	1.97	$8,288
Sep 1998	362	2,905	12.59	2.08	$10,608
Aug 1998	179	2,930	11.30	1.91	$7,611
Jul 1998	373	3,498	11.74	2.24	$12,205
Jun 1998	186	3,967	11.24	2.24	$10,966
May 1998	541	3,783	12.62	2.21	$15,174
Apr 1998	370	3,700	13.04	2.51	$14,095
Mar 1998	534	3,501	12.80	2.31	$14,921
Feb 1998	370	2,978	13.95	2.30	$12,008
Jan 1998	555	3,149	14.70	2.15	$14,944
Dec 1997	563	3,364	16.32	2.41	$17,299
Nov 1997	567	3,428	18.19	3.09	$20,900
Oct 1997	561	3,967	19.25	3.15	$23,295
Sep 1997	547	4,668	17.74	2.95	$23,497
Aug 1997	544	6,074	17.86	2.55	$25,233
Jul 1997	549	7,106	17.58	2.25	$25,618
Jun 1997	356	8,141	17.24	2.26	$24,513
May 1997	0	3,564	18.97	2.31	$8,227
Apr 1997	0	1,840	17.88	2.08	$3,832
Mar 1997	0	1,834	18.95	1.94	$3,556
Feb 1997	192	1,642	20.49	2.21	$7,556
Jan 1997	10	1,849	23.48	3.54	$6,780
Dec 1996	192	1,925	23.32	—	$4,477
Nov 1996	0	1,850	21.97	—	$0
Oct 1996	0	1,919	23.31	—	$0
Sep 1996	0	1,879	22.22	—	$0
Aug 1996	188	1,965	20.26	—	$3,809
Jul 1996	0	2,065	19.55	—	$0
Jun 1996	189	2,215	18.73	—	$3,540
May 1996	0	2,023	19.43	—	$0
Apr 1996	0	2,018	21.51	—	$0
Mar 1996	0	2,035	19.38	—	$0
Feb 1996	178	1,864	16.98	—	$3,022
Jan 1996	0	2,183	17.07	—	$0
Dec 1995	178	2,204	17.19	—	$3,060
Nov 1995	176	2,080	16.00	—	$2,816
Oct 1995	0	2,245	15.43	—	$0
Sep 1995	0	2,042	16.18	—	$0
Aug 1995	183	2,355	15.92	—	$2,913
Jul 1995	0	2,275	15.24	—	$0
Jun 1995	174	2,134	16.41	—	$2,855
May 1995	0	2,322	17.56	—	$0
Apr 1995	0	2,111	17.73	—	$0
Mar 1995	180	2,288	16.44	—	$2,959
Feb 1995	0	2,169	16.58	—	$0
Jan 1995	182	2,236	15.92	—	$2,897
Dec 1994	0	2,188	15.03	—	$0
Nov 1994	181	2,119	15.90	—	$2,878
Oct 1994	0	2,318	15.58	—	$0
Sep 1994	187	2,232	15.29	—	$2,859
Aug 1994	0	2,159	16.13	—	$0
Jul 1994	0	2,479	17.56	—	$0
Jun 1994	188	2,378	17.09	—	$3,213
May 1994	183	2,487	15.88	—	$2,906
Apr 1994	0	2,265	14.14	—	$0
Mar 1994	185	2,536	12.46	—	$2,305
Feb 1994	1	2,380	12.50	—	$13
Jan 1994	185	2,475	12.66	—	$2,342
Dec 1993	0	2,523	12.33	—	$0
Nov 1993	185	2,508	14.49	—	$2,681
Oct 1993	184	2,752	15.85	—	$2,916
Sep 1993	0	2,706	15.03	—	$0
Aug 1993	180	2,870	15.66	—	$2,819
Jul 1993	0	2,730	15.46	—	$0
Jun 1993	183	2,707	16.79	—	$3,073
May 1993	190	2,857	17.68	—	$3,359
Apr 1993	2	2,799	18.05	—	$36
Mar 1993	188	2,721	18.14	—	$3,410
Feb 1993	194	2,529	17.90	—	$3,473
Jan 1993	1	2,784	16.93	—	$17

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Feb 2016 — as filed, then multipliedworked

Oil                    0 bbl  × $ 26.47 =         $0
Casinghead gas       402 Mcf  × $  2.06 =       $830

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Month total                                     $830

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 03/O/17243 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.